Women, Crime and Criminal Justice

'This is a challenging, innovative and comprehensive book; it will be essential reading for everyone interested in gender, crime & criminal justice.' - Frances Heidensohn, Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, UK

‘Employing smartly crafted prose and a sophisticated international, interdisciplinary and feminist lens, Barberet brilliantly "stretches criminology" to examine Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice around the globe. This groundbreaking book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of global socioeconomic forces, gender inequality, international law, and human rights on both violence against women and justice for women, textured by rich examples from diverse international contexts. This book is essential reading for ALL criminologists!’ - Nancy A. Wonders, Northern Arizona University, USA

‘The transformative power of feminist criminology rests in large part on feminist criminologists’ ability to develop a global perspective on offending and victimization, criminal law, and legal processes. In this this book, Rosemary Barberet leads the way, providing a feminist comparative analysis of such topics as violence against women, gender differences in transnational crime, and women’s roles in legal institutions including war crimes tribunals and international peacemaking. This book is, in a word, groundbreaking.’ - Claire M. Renzetti, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Kentucky, USA

‘Immensely readable, this is a daring and refreshing book, challenging us to think well beyond the narrow tramlines of academic Anglo-American criminology, and national horizons. Using an interdisciplinary and feminist gendered perspective, Rosemary Barberet explores global perspectives on women’s offending and victimization and as criminal justice professionals. She sees women’s involvement as a continuum of acts and meanings, and is not afraid to confront the complexities of complicity in repression or exploitation. Using international and interdisciplinary scholarship and research and non-English language sources, she amply succeeds in her aim of "stretching criminology" and highlighting the necessity and benefits of a global and gendered perspective.’ - Margaret Shaw PhD, Crime and Social Policy Consulting, Montreal, Canada

‘This is a thought-provoking, provocative, expansive, refreshing and beautifully crafted book that fills a large gap - the internationalisation of the analysis of Women, Crime and Criminal Justice. Importantly, it also embraces sources and voices from the non-Anglophone world. The book will no doubt reinvigorate debates in criminal justice policy, criminology and feminist criminology. It is essential reading for a wide-ranging audience of policy makers, activists, NGOs and of course scholars, especially, but not only, criminologists and feminists across the globe. I commend it to you.’ - Professor Kerry Carrington, Head of School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

'Ambitious, topical, highly engaging and impressively comprehensive, this book will be of interest to those studying or working in the fields of not only criminology but also violence against women, gender studies, international development, political science, public policy, health, economics and peace and security studies. As Barberet reminds us, looking globally is an ambitious approach but one with exciting potential implications, as success at this level could have a positive effect on girls’ and women’s lives across the world.'—Jessica Southgate, The Howard League for Penal Reform

'Rosemary Barberet’s new book... will excite instructors who have struggled to incorporate global perspectives on women and crime into their graduate and undergraduate courses... Women, Crime and Criminal Justice succeeds in presenting a concise overview of an extensive yet understudied field.'— Judith A. Ryder, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers University)

"Rosemary Barberet has written a book that illustrates criminology’s breadth, its self-awareness about problems of method, and its growing sensitivity to the ways in which national borders inform conceptions of crime and academic studies of crime control. Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is a testament to the field’s capacity to keep up with the changing shape of state power. It is also a glimpse at what remains to be done as scholars think through the relationship between gender, crime, and globalization." - Emma Kaufman, Yale University, Theoretical Criminology